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World Patient Safety Day 2026
In a blog to mark World Patient Safety Day, Patient Safety Learning explores what this year’s theme, “Safe care for noncommunicable diseases,” means for patient safety and highlights the work Patient Safety Learning has been doing to support the campaign. This includes a downloadable poster and a series of related blogs on the hub, offering practical insights and resources to help drive action for safer care:
Recommendations for a future AI regulatory framework
The 10 Year Health Plan for England sets an ambition to “make the NHS the most AI-enabled care system in the world”. In line with this aim, there has been a significant increase in use of ambient voice technology (AVT) products, sometimes referred to as AI scribes, by healthcare providers. Responding to these developments, the Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) has recently launched a new investigation exploring the use of AVT in hospitals. In a new blog, Patient Safety Learning considers:
Benefits and risks associated with the use of AVT products in healthcare.
The evolving regulatory environment around this technology in the NHS
Key issues for a new patient safety investigation to consider.
Transformative Simulation resources
Transformative Simulation considers how simulation can be intentionally used beyond education to understand and contribute to change within healthcare systems.hub topic lead Sharon Weldon shares a number of resources demonstrating how simulation has been used to support patient safety and system improvement in practice.
In a new blog on the hub, Beatrice Fraenkel shares her reflections on the approach taken to establish a just culture at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust during her 14 years as Chair of the organisation. She explores the relationship between culture, leadership, and patient safety, and how one organisation’s journey shows both the power of getting it right and the risks when it begins to unravel.
Save the dates
Join us in London on 8 October or Leeds on 2 November for our bespoke course: Practical Thematic Analysis for Patient Safety. Our facilitators, Dr Helen Vosper and Claire Cox, will combine deep subject matter expertise with systems thinking and human factors principles to help you turn patient safety data into actionable learning and improvement. The highly practical and evidence informed course will continue once you return to the workplace with support to give you the confidence to put what you've learned into practice.
This month is World Alzheimer's Month. At Patient Safety Learning we believe that sharing insights and learning is vital to improving outcomes and reducing harm.Dementia is an umbrella term for a number of diseases that affect the brain, with Alzheimer’s disease its most common cause. In our Top picks: Key patient safety resources for people with dementia we have picked a range of resources and reflections about keeping people with dementia safe in health and care settings, and when considering medication choices.
Amy Breslin is a Manchester-based midwife and Maternity Consultant for the UK Sepsis Trust. In this interview, she explains what maternal sepsis is, the huge impact it has both globally and for the individuals affected, and how we can improve outcomes.
In September 2026, the National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare published its recommendations to the MHRA for a future regulatory framework. In this blog, Clive Flashman, Patient Safety Learning's Chief Digital Officer, sets out the five recommendations he most strongly supports, and five gaps that need addressing before the cross-government response is published.
Are you passionate about improving health and care services? Two enthusiastic individuals with lived experience of the UK Health and Care system are invited to join ASPiH as a Lived Experience Advisor. No simulation knowledge or experience is required – your lived experience and perspective are what matter most.
In this blog, Aderonke Opawande shares the research she carried out with 50 practising nurses across several countries, which confirmed the gap was systemic rather than personal, and explains why it led her to write the Patient Safety 101 Suite: six practical resources covering foundation of patient safety, escalation, internationally educated nurses, preceptorship, second victim support and organisational learning.
In this blog, Mustafa Ghafouri discusses why he built HospitalWaits—a free tool for patients—and how it can help close the waiting gap. He also highlights the risks and limits of these types of comparison tools and why he welcomes critique from the patient safety community.
The Integrated Institutional Transformation Theory (IITT) introduces a new perspective for understanding institutional transformation in primary healthcare centres. Rather than viewing governance, quality, performance and organisational learning as separate domains, the theory conceptualises primary healthcare centres as integrated institutional systems
The Picker Experience Network Awards are the first and only awards programme to recognise best practice in patient experience across all facets of health and social care in the UK and beyond. They celebrate projects, teams, individuals, and initiatives that have made exceptional contributions to care, engagement, service delivery, and wellbeing from the perspective of patients, carers, families, and staff.
Consent is a process of communication and shared decision-making, where patients should have the information they need to make a genuine and informed choice about their care.This webinar will explore what meaningful consent looks like in practice, for both patients and healthcare professionals.
Recent Patient Safety Management Network meetings have included presentations on how digital approaches can support outpatients, measuring the quality of your engagement, LRRIT judgement and a PSII of a patient injury.
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